After a week of the global launch, Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG) has unveiled the HUAWEI Mate20 Series smartphones along with the Huawei Watch GT in the Middle East and Africa region during a launch event at Burj Park where the audience enjoyed a Huawei Mate 20 Series lightshow projected on the Burj Khalifa, Dubai’s most prominent landmark.

Huawei Mate 20 Series is powered by Huawei’s Kirin 980, the most powerful SoC currently available and comes with 7nm process, Cortex-A76 architecture based CPU, Mali-G76 GPU and 128 GB storage.

Huawei Mate 20 Pro comes with 6.39” curved OLED 1440p resolution HDR display and Huawei Mate 20 features a 6.53” flat LCD screen with 1080p resolution. The Pro version comes with the new 40W HUAWEI SuperCharge and 15W HUAWEI Wireless Quick Charge, the industry’s fastest wireless charging solution, while the regular variant comes with 22.5W SuperCharge and no wireless charging. Huawei Mate 20 Pro also comes with the new Wireless Reverse Charge feature, which enables it to work as a power bank for supported electronic devices with wireless charging.

Another difference between the Huawei Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro is that the Pro variant comes with 3D Face ID sensor, in-display fingerprint scanner, stereo speakers, IP68 waterproofing while all these are missing on the regular variant. But Mate 20 comes with 3.5mm audio jack and a rear fingerprint scanner.

The Matrix tri-rear camera setup comes with the combination of ultra-wide, wide and telephoto lens that allows users to capture wider shots and also Macro shots from as close as an inch distance. The new AI Portrait Color video mode can isolate human subjects and desaturate colors around them as subject to highlight the person.

The back of the Mate 20 series smartphones comes with Hyper Optical Pattern on the glass back to create nice effect. HUAWEI Mate 20 Series comes with the Android 9 Pie OS with EMUI 9 on top of it.

HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro will be available in Black, Emerald Green and Twilight color options and the price of Huawei Mate 20 Pro in Saudi Arabia will be 3,299 SAR. iT will be available for pre-orders starting from Thursday October 25th with a set of gifts for up to SAR 1998, including HUAWEI TalkBand B5 and HUAWEI SuperFast Wireless Charger in addition to HUAWEI VIP Services.

HUAWEI Mate 20 will be available in Black, Midnight Vlue and Huawei Twilight. The price of Huawei Mate 20 in Saudi Arabia will be 2,399 SAR. It is also available for pre-booking from October 25th with a set of gifts, including HUAWEI TalkBand B5 in addition to HUAWEI VIP Services.

HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro and HUAWEI Mate20 smartphones will be available in the Saudi market from November 8th, 2018.

The PORSCHE DESIGN HUAWEI Mate 20 RS was also launched at the same event. It is the most high-end and luxury variant in the Mate 20 series and developed through the collaboration between Porsche Design and Huawei. It is the fourth handset under the exclusive PORSCHE DESIGN line-up of Huawei.

Along with the Mate 20 Pro Series, Huawei also alunched the Huawei Watch GT in Saudi Arabia and Middle East. It comes in a 10.6 mm thick compact body, designed for both genders and features the industry leading innovative GPS technology – the GPS chip. It let the device support the simultaneous positioning of three satellite systems for rapid and accurate positioning that helps in recording all outdoor exercises data with utmost accuracy.

It comes with 14 days battery life that is claimed to provide the continuous heart rate and scientific sleeping monitoring, GPS open during 90 minutes exercise session, 6 incoming calls, 3 alarm reminders as well as screen brightening for 200 times. Huawei Watch GT will be available in Saudi Arabia at 699 SAR.

The complete list of all hardware specs and features of Huawei Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro are given below.

Gene Jiao President of Huawei CBG, Middle East and Africa, said on the launch event;

“Huawei takes pride in being a pioneer in On-Device Artificial Intelligence, shaping the evolution of smartphones into intelligent tools that understand users in order to assist them. Through innovative features such as a revolutionary Matrix Camera System, a long-lasting battery and the groundbreaking Reverse Charging, the HUAWEI Mate 20 Series aims to empower users by responding to their daily needs and allowing them to fully immerse into today’s digital world”.